Ripples

One of my favourite songs from my teenage years.
Genesis Ripples.

As the rain postponed my evening cycle for another day, the pond boiled with droplets big enough to soak an umbrella and run down the darned thing to soak a blippers beam end.

It was worth it.

A day of DIY and Blackbirds baked in a pie.

Imagine the scene;

Ally with power screwdriver in one hand and a hammer in t'other,
Mr.R hiding in his bedroom and me with a floorboard poised to smack the rat,mouse,large tarantula type monster interloper over the head as the floor was raised. As the scratching stopped with the floor being raised, a blooming young starling flew out and straight out of the open window.

Ally said he lost 2lbs in that instant.

I said, I'm not washing his knickers.

He must have strayed from the nest in our eaves and fallen down the space around one of the pipes and manged to arrive under our upper floor.

Who'd have thunk it?